Richard is saying this:

Hello <? ?>
Jello

…after PHP-parsing becomes this:

 Hello Jello

I just add an extra newline manually, like this:

Hello <? ?>

Jello

…giving this:

Hello
Jello

This is an old question, but to keep the new line, simply place a space after the closing tag.

Source: http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.php

There is no way to change this behavior. To make it clear what’s happening, I always explicitly put the newline character in my template files.

Hello,    

Foo: <?php echo $foo."n"; ?>
Bar: <?php echo $foo."n"; ?>

This concludes foo and bar.

Outputs:

Hello,    

Foo: foo
Bar: bar

This concludes foo and bar.

You can try this:

echo "output n";

or even this much less elegant technique:

echo "output
";

Please paste some example code snippet to get more specific help.

You can’t always just start a block level element after the php tag.

Sometimes, you are generating plain text for inside a textarea.

Other times, you are not generating HTML strings at all.

• SQL statement
• email body
• other non-HTML strings

My compulsive habits drive me to similar goals. Sadly, there is no elegant solution for this. Two suggestions:

1. Output a newline character where you want to break the HTML code like so:

   echo 'Hello World'.chr(10);

2. PHP’s ‘echo’ command is not an actual function so you cannot override it; however, you could create a wrapper and use that instead:

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   <code>function myecho($string, $newline=true)

   {

   echo $string;

   if($newline)

   echo chr(10);

   }

   </code>

   <code>function myecho($string, $newline=true) { echo $string; if($newline) echo chr(10); } </code>

   function myecho($string, $newline=true)
   {
      echo $string;
      if($newline)
         echo chr(10);
   }
   

Neither solution is elegant, but then again, neither is the HTML output if you don’t add line breaks.

You can make this slightly more elegant:

<?=$var.PHP_EOL?>

But in the end this is just a missing feature: If you’re not in HTML/XML-context, just want to output simple, pure text you WANT to output the text “as is” and not have magically stripped the newlines away.

If this is causing a problem for you, you’re most likely not writing good HTML. If you have PHP separated out from the HTML, then after the ?> close tag, just start with a block level HTML element.

Like this:

Hello <?php $php_code(); ?> <div>Something else here</div> or even <p>Something else here</p>

Which would output:

Hello

Something else here

If instead you’re writing:

Hello <?php $php_code(); ?> Something else here

Then your problem is in how you’re writing HTML, not PHP parsing.